Example sentences of "as an " in BNC.
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| 1 | Again , much interest attaches to interpretation , as an impassive hierarchical image of the Madonna is softened through the centuries into a more human and tender figure . |
| 2 | An apt combination of noun and adjective , a bon mot , an evocative phrase , is as much as an artist can hope for and a reader can expect . |
| 3 | A fragment from an altarpiece can not be appraised in just the same way as an independent portrait ; and a craftsman 's skill is esteemed more accurately when the materials used are rightly identified . |
| 4 | His first book , the collection of stories entitled Goodbye , Columbus , fixed him in the popular mind , from 1959 , as an ‘ enemy of the Jews ’ — a condition aggravated by the onanistic bravura and scandalous mad success of the grotesquely imaginative Portnoy 's Complaint ( 1969 ) , and not much improved in recent years by The Counterlife ( 1987 ) , in which various escapes from Jewish America , including an escape to Israel , are projected , and in which Zuckerman and his dentist brother Henry are both imagined to have ailing hearts and to undertake gruesome surgery in order to restore the sexual potency suspended by their medication . |
| 5 | Yet students who have completed expensive training face the same difficulties as an untrained actor in qualifying for an Equity card . |
| 6 | I feel confident because I know I came out to help : directly , by leading them as well as an officer can ; indirectly , by watching their sufferings so that I may plead for them as well as I can . |
| 7 | There seemed to be the fairly uncomplicated desire among the community to see all the children attend the same school , as an expression of relationships existing within the community . |
| 8 | Yet that something not so much a thing as an eye . |
| 9 | As well as an exhibition of food-related products , the show will include a series of seminars covering quality assurance and customer relations . |
| 10 | You can not expect a reference book to be quite as gripping as an adventure novel , but all the same I read it cover to cover . |
| 11 | She had evidently decided that the policeman was a handsome as well as an agreeable fellow . |
| 12 | She was blind as an owl in daylight without glasses : therefore nothing to look at . |
| 13 | Jay took such things as an omen . |
| 14 | Perform combination techniques on the move so that you are able to work effectively in a retreating as well as an advancing mode . |
| 15 | He mentions his presidency of the Student Council , and his chairmanship of ‘ Student Productions ’ ; as well as an interest in debating ‘ current events ’ . |
| 16 | The dedication was a gesture of pained sorrow at his father 's death as much as an act of filial piety , and the natural way to do it was to reproduce the style and character of his essentially Edwardian father . |
| 17 | In this section , I will set out what I believe to be the basic characteristics of a flourishing , as well as an unsuccessful , approach to science . |
| 18 | No hedges , and peas as high as an elephant 's eye . ’ |
| 19 | And she went into it out of real idealism , not just as an ego trip to prove oneself to one 's dead father — ’ |
| 20 | We reach the station at the same moment as an elegant train loaded with ladies preening themselves in their furs and hats , the men all wearing dark suits . |
| 21 | Some manufacturers like to leave the tempering colour on the tools , as an indication that this operation has been carried out properly . |
| 22 | Then , as an afterthought , Dostoevsky wrote ‘ the air was terribly stifling ’ and ‘ in addition , a smell of wet paint assailed the nostrils ’ . |
| 23 | Therefore he has a public front and function as well as an unhealthy yellow human face . |
| 24 | As an American commentator has remarked of Eagleton , ‘ You can take the boy out of Cambridge , but you ca n't take Cambridge out of the boy . ’ |
| 25 | But the thrust of these essays is not so special , nor so self-serving ; those who nowadays gird at ‘ the canon ’ , as an array of allegedly classic masterpieces in literature , their classic status imposed as an instrument of cultural oppression , need to take account of how in these essays Pound challenged the canon , requiring that it be revised . |
| 26 | If these coalitions fall apart , as an earlier version did in Hesse in 1987 amid much rancour , the repercussions could be disastrous , with the Christian Democrats poised to exploit any hint of ‘ red-green chaos ’ . |
| 27 | Partly , Davie believes , because the British are now too ignorant of prosody to be able to hear Bunting 's precise , subtle music ; partly because , as an associate of Pound and Zukovsky , he is ‘ an embarrassment to the numerous English historians who would have it that modernism in poetry was a temporary , American-inspired distraction from a native tradition … ’ |
| 28 | Mr Cross is managing director of Dallhold Investments , Mr Bond 's private holding company through which he owns shares in Bond Corporation , Bond International Gold and other companies , as well as an extensive art collection . |
| 29 | Nor can one omit , as an important contributing factor in his decline , the humiliating failure of his own attempts to write and direct a feature film , Yellowbeard , even after some drastic and , by Chapman 's own account , disastrous re-editing by the studio . |
| 30 | As soon as an injunction was sought , newspapers faced large legal bills , he said . |